Recently, I was talking about vectors. At that time, I had to stop and recall how I had been representing vectors. Ideally, I should stick with the same notation I used in Basics: Vectors and Vector ...
pre-reqs: trig Think of the following two things. Temperature and wind speed. These are two different things that you could measure, but there is one big difference. Wind speed has two parts to it - ...
When adding vector quantities remember that the directions have to be taken into account. The result of adding vectors together is called the resultant. In problems, vectors may be added together by ...
Subtracting a vector is the same as adding a negative version of the vector (remember that making a vector negative means reversing its direction). \(\left( \begin{array}{l} a\\ b \end{array} \right) ...